Nickelodeon to launch Avatar Studios

[horsemen4ever]

So Nickelodeon is launching Avatar Studios, new content coming to Paramount +

ew.com/tv/nickelodeon-expanding-avatar-the-last-airbender-animated-film/

I am excited, new Avatar content. BTW I am talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender, not the blue people Avatar. I guess it is called Avatar studios, mean they don't have deal with James Cameron nonsense. Also mean the live action Netflix is dead.

I am hoping we get the Avatar after Korra series, new stories, and some comic book adaptation, at least of the important stuff. I can live without North And South or Imbalance getting adaption. Really anything post Smoke and Shadows, whatever. As for the Korra comics, you only have two of them, adapt them both why not?

I hope they adapt The Search, maybe some minor changes, so at least it is some what new for all of us. If you have to do The Promise okay, but maybe they could adapt The Search and quickly give us clip notes of The Promise like The Hot Springs Investigation arc in Food Wars.

I wonder how many characters might need to be recast because of availability. Zuko is the one I least worry about, Azula a close second, and I think Sokka is safe as well. But everyone else is fair game, I am not sure if they could get Mae back for Katara, and even if they do a time skip and age up Aang, his voice acting as quit acting. Would he come back?

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I have some pretty serious doubts about doing more with the franchise honestly. Only like half of Korra at most is particularly good (I'd say season 3 is great, seasons 1 and 4 have a lot to like but fall apart if you think about them at all, season 2 is just terrible outside of Varrick and his story arc that season is ultimately completely pointless anyway) and the power creep in that show got so stupid that I feel like trying to do any kind of attempt at a follow-up is just going to be absurd with how high the stakes and power levels will have to get.

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Feb 25, 2021 13:20:11 GMT -5 Sponsored by Groose Wipes said:

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Hopefully they adapt the Kyoshi novels by F.C. Yee.

Only two of them, but covers Kyoshi’s early years as the Avatar. But Kyoshi lived to be 230 so they can go beyond the books if they make a success out of it.

[HMARK Center]

I didn't see anything saying the Netflix series isn't happening, but given how Mike and Bryan ended up walking away from that I'm glad that this will be there to make up for what could end up being another live action disappointment (hope it isn't one, of course).

I remember years ago that they originally had an idea of doing an animated film focusing on younger Iroh's siege of Ba Sing Se and the experiences that ended up humbling him, would love to see that finally happen.

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Feb 25, 2021 18:50:43 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

I didn't see anything saying the Netflix series isn't happening

Netflix quietly delisted it a few months ago. It could just be it's in development hell so they decided to take focus off of it, but at least in the moment there's reason to think it's cancelled.

[fw91]

I'm really surprised how popular this show is was. To me it aired in my later Nickelodeon years and I found it too atypical of Nickelodeon, that it would be a flash in the pan at best. I was more into the Schneider shows during this time.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

Glad to see they're keeping the Avatar brand name... Not because I care for the franchise at all (I'm more apathetic to it.) I just REALLY hate the James Cameron film, and to an extent Cameron himself.

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Feb 25, 2021 19:18:44 GMT -5 fw91 said:

I'm really surprised how popular this show is was. To me it aired in my later Nickelodeon years and I found it too atypical of Nickelodeon, that it would be a flash in the pan at best. I was more into the Schneider shows during this time.

I think it benefits a lot from how at the time there wasn't really much like it in terms of being a cartoon with an ongoing narrative. There were some that existed certainly - As Told by Ginger and Samurai Jack come immediately to mind - but I feel like it's a more accessible show than both and was kind of more willing to fully commit to being continuous with its storytelling instead of still generally aiming to keep everything somewhat within a 22 minute box, at least when you get past the first season. That anime-esque stuff like Teen Titans had also been pretty popular around the time likely also helped it a lot. I think it was kind of a perfect storm of the right place and the right time, though being a damn good show probably helped.

Granted I do kind of feel like the show's perception benefits a lot from season 2; the whole thing is very good (other than maybe the first few episodes but whatever, every show has growing pains), but it's pretty handily both the highest quality and most daring point of the show and the most tightly plotted it gets.